Jimmy has appeared on The Louis Theroux Podcast for the first time. Published December 16th 2025 Louis mentioned that it had been recorded on a Monday in November. As he (Jimmy) was in the US early in Nov this would make the record date 10th, 17th or 24th.
The studio was described, by Jimmy, as “off The Strand” and close to the Shell building. Reminding him of commuting there and the job that he used to have.
It’s an Apple Podcast on Spotify etc. See – here
Louis has posted the video version on there and, if you prefer to see them chatting, that’s the only place it will be posted as he doesn’t seem to post his episodes on YouTube.
Jimmy arrives at 5 mins 32
Book mention:
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture – Johan Huizinga
See Booklist – here.
Some of the topics / people mentioned:
- Fackham Hall
- Dave Attell
- Transgressive humour? / authenticity / cognitive dissonance
- Role of play in life
- Peter McGraw / benign violation
- Frankfurt School / Foucault
- Split testing jokes
- Bob Monkhouse
- His Dark Material (HDM) joke controversy
- Politicians mentioning Jimmy in Parliament
- Netflix
- Patron Saint of Comedy
- Dave Chappelle
- Andrew Doyle / Titania McGrath
- Ben Elton / Vic and Bob / The Young Ones / The Two Ronnies
- Writing jokes
- Hours of stage time
- Slough / Reading
- Was it 4 or 5 A’s at A Level?
- Cambridge
- Redundancy / first Edinburgh Fringe with Gervais, Merchant and Ince (Rubbernecker – here)
- Naval Ravikant
- Improvising during crowdwork
- 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
- Elon Musk / Trump / Peter Teal / Eric Weinstein
- The UN
- Riyadh Comedy Festival / direction of travel
- Louis CK – played a double header
- Is Louis CK cancelled?
- Before and Laughter
- Maternal relationship / depression / narcolepsy
- Jordan B Peterson
- Politics
- Why did he not lose his virginity until 26?
- Would Jimmy tell his younger self to do things differently?
Jimmy Carr teaches Louis Theroux how to announce ‘Fackham Hall’.
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